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Pro-Palestinian billboard ads removed in Seattle after Clear Channel receives 'complaints'


Clear Channel is well known for its own peculiar take on democracy - if you don't agree with them you don't get a voice. They are now picking on the growing pro-Palestine movement in the US. The campaign by Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign aims to highlight the amount of US tax dollars that go to the Israeli military. And who are these 'unnamed groups and individuals' that Clear Channel was so eager to appease?
A controversial pro-Palestinian advertisement has been pulled from Seattle billboards this week. The ad, which was sponsored by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC), was canceled and pulled from Seattle area Clear Channel Outdoor billboards just days after it was posted.

The billboards featured an image of a child behind a fence and the words, “Equal rights for Palestinians. Stop funding the Israeli military.” The ads also referenced a webpage – www.Stop30Billion-Seattle.org.

Olivia Lippens, president of Clear Channel Outdoor Seattle, told the group that objections from unnamed groups and individuals had led them to cancel SeaMAC’s contract, according to a statement from SeaMAC. more
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  1. Anonymous29 April 2011 at 08:42

    Anyone who has read Michael Neumann's brilliant book
    "THE CASE AGAINST ISRAEL" will likely come to understand that Palestine was taken by premeditated theft. No contest. No "historical right" doctrine can even remotely pass muster.
    Ben Gurion "We took their country."
    Zionism in my estimation is the worst enemy of the Jewish faith
    And, after years of personally buying the official version of 911, by studying the evidence (A&E 911 Truth, Loose Change, Dancing Israelis, Pilots for 911 truth, Firefighters for Truth), it is all too obvious to me now that Mossad pulled off the entire job, though likely with help from elements inside the US government. And we still send billions a year to Israel. It is amazing how effective a little bit of money spent to buy politicians in bulk at wholesale prices can be in acquiring near unlimited leverage. As Ward Day (headmaster @ Exeter in the 1960s) would say:
    "If you come upon a situation in your life that you KNOW to be wrong, it is your duty and obligation to stand up and say, "This is wrong, and i am opposed to it, no matter what the consequences may be to you personally."
    When Truman was presented with the document asking for US recognition of the State of Israel, Truman's chief advisor (Douglas Johnson, I seem to recall) begged him to think and ponder before affixing his signature. "This may have momentous consequences. This requires time and careful thought." Truman grabbed his pen, and signed the document without hesitation, saying: "What the hell do I care about the Arabs? They never helped me get elected!"
    In a thousand years, if Palestine remains occupied, the theft of Palestine will likely never be set aside, or forgiven, or made right, no matter how much propaganda is set forth claiming legitimacy for an (in Michael Neumann's words) "an illegitimate state."

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